The gods are on the side of the stronger.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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